Seasonality and drought effects of Amazonian forests observed from multi-angle satellite data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 171, Issue , 2015, Pages 278-290

  de Moura, Yhasmin Mendes ^a   Hilker, Thomas ^b   Lyapustin, Alexei I ^c   Galvão, Lênio Soares ^a   dos Santos, João Roberto ^a   Anderson, Liana O ^d,e   de Sousa, Célio Helder Resende ^b   Arai, Egidio ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d Technology and Innovation   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amazon; Anisotropy; Browning; Drought; Greening; MAIAC; MODIS

Indexed keywords

AGRONOMY; ANISOTROPY; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; FORESTRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIOMETERS; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TROPICS; VEGETATION;

AMAZON; BROWNING; GREENING; MAIAC; MODIS;

DROUGHT;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; DROUGHT; FOREST CANOPY; LEAF AREA INDEX; MODIS; RAINFOREST; REMOTE SENSING; SEASONALITY; TRMM; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

AMAZON BASIN; AMAZONIA;

EID: 84946413427     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.10.015     Document Type: Article

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